Status Updates From The Girls of Summer: The U....

Just read a chapter about Mia Hamm and how she basically gave women’s sports momentum. Also read how all throughput the 20th century women were given the opportunity to compete in sports, then exceeded expectations and actually had women like Billy Jean King beating a man in their shared sport. I’m pumped up!

Realistically I think he’s stretching the story into too much content but there’s some really good writing in here
“This was America’s new, cable-wired, online nationalism, honeycombed lives intersecting during collective agony, the knee-pad titillation of Oval Office sex, the rubbernecking of celebrity violence.” I can tell he was smug when he came up with this and honestly I would be too

So far loving learning about the different things that led to so many people watching the women's team! Tying in all the cultural events that happened while the 1999 team played is also interesting!

Truly loved this, i grew up with the 99ers as idols and true mentors, so getting to learn really about each player and the team as a whole was a treat

gosh I love soccer